Category: Weddings and Marriage

  • August 27

    August 27

    Hence, bashful cunning!
    And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
    I am your wife, if you will marry me;
    If not, I’ll die your maid: to be your fellow
    You may deny me; but I’ll be your servant,
    Whether you will or no.

  • July 14

    July 14

    A contract of true love to celebrate…
    Honour, riches, marriage-blessing,
    Long continuance, and increasing,
    Hourly joys be still upon you!

  • July 8

    July 8

    I can express no kinder sign of love than this kind kiss…
    For thou hast given me in this beauteous face
    A world of earthly blessings to my soul.

  • May 5

    May 5

    I charm you, by my once-commended beauty,
    By all your vows of love and that great vow
    Which did incorporate and make us one,
    That you unfold to me.

  • April 11

    April 11

    No sooner met but they looked;
    No sooner looked but they loved;
    No sooner loved but they sighed;
    No sooner signed but they asked one another the reason;
    No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy;
    And in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.

  • March 28

    March 28

    My love is holy… say thou art mine, and ever
    My love as it begins shall so persever.

  • March 10

    March 10

    Live with me, and be my love,
    And we will all the pleasures prove…
    And if these pleasures may thee move,
    Then live with me and be my love.